Awesome! Klingon is on my list of languages to learn, right next to Tolkien's Elvish.I just figure its best to start with 'real' languages first, before moving on the the more widely spoken fantasy ones.

1) The a priori lexicon makes it unintelligible to non-speakers, whereas Esperanto's vocabulary is taken primarily from several European languages, and thus can be at least partially understood by anyone familiar with European languages in general. Compare "Mi ne parolas la francan" to "vIraS Hol vIjatlhbe' "; "Ĉu vi komprenas?" to "bIyaj'a'?"

2) It has a harsher sound, thus increasing its "repellent" potency; Esperanto sounds kinda like something generically European, kinda a cross between Italian and Polish, while Klingon has that harsh guttural sound that may make the pot dealer (or scammer on the bus, or telemarketer, or...) think "What on earth??" rather than "rats, some language I don't know".

3) It has a lower likelihood that the person you're trying to discourage actually speaks it; there were "about a dozen" fluent Klingon speakers in 1996 (according to Wikipedia); the number now is maybe 50, if we're generous; certainly couldn't be more than 100. Whereas estimates of the number of Esperanto speakers range from hundreds of thousands, to millions.

However, Klingon does have the disadvantage of being rather difficult to pronounce.

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